Barack Obama: The Story

How did President Obama’s early years develop the skills he needed to reach the White House? What circumstances formed his pattern of consensus building? And to what extent did he struggle to define his racial identity growing up? The answers to these questions and more, as we examine President Obama’s life prior to his entry into politics — in this rebroadcast from 2012, as author and bibliographer David Maraniss shares his perspectives from writing “Barack Obama: The Story.”